Microsoft OneNote has been available for Android and iOS tablets for quite some time, but a new update has tailored the app to best suit their larger screens. OneNote now offers handwriting support, allowing you to capture and format the notes you take during school lectures or board meetings. OneNote has evolved to become a very full-featured digital notebook that allows … [Read more...] about Microsoft Improves OneNote App For Tablets
Education
Google Launches Free Online Teaching Tool: Classroom
With the pilot phase completed, Google Classroom is now live for all Google Apps for Education users. Designed to be a free learning management system, Classroom laces together the functionality found within Google Drive, Docs, and Gmail in an effort to help teachers "save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students." Behaving as a support system, … [Read more...] about Google Launches Free Online Teaching Tool: Classroom
Udacity Offers Android Development Course
Do you have a fantastic idea for a new Android app, but lack the development skills to bring it to market? Udacity would like to help you turn inspiration into reality with their new course called "Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals." Delivered entirely online, this class is aimed at developers who understand the fundamentals of programming (using other languages … [Read more...] about Udacity Offers Android Development Course
Data Conversion Laboratory Webinar Explores eBooks in the K12 Classroom
One of the last groups to adopt ebooks in a widespread and focused way is the K12 education sphere. While digital textbooks have been painfully slow to reach the public school market, ebooks have been an even slower format when it comes to kids and reading. OverDrive has made ebooks even more accessible, though, along with initiatives like Qlovi and Smashwords' OverDrive … [Read more...] about Data Conversion Laboratory Webinar Explores eBooks in the K12 Classroom
Google Gets Girls Into IT With $50M “Made With Code” Investment
As a woman working in the male-dominated IT industry, news that Google has launched a new initiative aimed to get young women excited about become software developers hits rather close to home. While it's true that there are more women entering computer science-related fields every year, it is also the case that they are still the minority. In an effort to change that, Google's … [Read more...] about Google Gets Girls Into IT With $50M “Made With Code” Investment
Train Your Brain With Lumosity: Now Available For Android
Designed by a team of neuroscientists with foundations in the study of neuroplasticity (read: smart people trying to make our brains work better), Lumosity is just as fun to play as it is functional. Sure it helps that the mini-games inside this app are specially crafted to improve your mental speed, memory, attention span, flexibility and problem solving skills... but it … [Read more...] about Train Your Brain With Lumosity: Now Available For Android
FarFaria to Give Away 10,000 Subscriptions to Teachers
Children's ebook subscription platform FarFaria exhibited at this year's BookExpo event to demonstrate the powerful effects of their product, but also to ensure that attendees know about the company's pro-teacher initiative. As of last week, FarFaria instituted a summer giveaway which will offer 10,000 teachers a free one-year subscription to their service, allowing those … [Read more...] about FarFaria to Give Away 10,000 Subscriptions to Teachers
Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Project To Deliver Gift of Reading to Every Child
A love of reading is one of the greatest gifts that you can give to a child. Not only will it stick with them for the rest of their lives, it will open their imaginations and open their world to countless possibilities. Many of us remember Reading Rainbow from our childhoods, watching "by picking up a book, [you] could go anywhere and be anything." An iOS app released earlier … [Read more...] about Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Project To Deliver Gift of Reading to Every Child
Webinar: Digital Textbooks in the K12 Sector
With schools around the US starting to gather materials and stock their costly print textbooks back in the closet until the fall, it begs the question as to why more schools haven't adopted digital textbooks, especially in light of Bring Your Own Device initiatives and the popularity that movement has experienced. With students in even the lower elementary grades now authorized … [Read more...] about Webinar: Digital Textbooks in the K12 Sector
Experts Fears eBooks Hinder Student Reading Comprehension
Renewed concerns about students who use tablets for reading have surfaced as experts now fear the "bells and whistles" approach to enhanced ebooks are actually stunting student comprehension. At last week's American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia, researchers Heather Ruetschlin Schugar and Jordan T. Schugar presented their findings from a study that pitted … [Read more...] about Experts Fears eBooks Hinder Student Reading Comprehension